Munitions chemicals and PAHs in water, sediment, and blue mussels (mytilus spp.) at the wreck site of the German WWII battleship Tirpitz off Tromsø, Norway

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This data set documents a sampling of the remains of the battleship Tirpitz from World War II, which was sunk by the Royal Air Force on November 12, 1944, off the island of Håkøya, which belongs to Tromsø, in Sandnessundet, Norway, and was scrapped on site until the 1950s. Since many non-recyclable remains were left on site, there is a suspicion that the wreck could be a source of pollution for the local marine environment. Sampling was carried out on May 31 and June 1 2025 by divers using polypropylene bags and bottles (1 L), as well as with a remote-controlled crawler with an integrated water and sediment sampling system. Water, sediment, and mussel samples were taken. Water samples were where extracted by solid phase extraction on site, mussels were opened to allow the respiratory water to drain out and frozen on site at -18 °C. Sediments were also frozen on site at -18 °C. All samples remained frozen until processing in the laboratory. The samples were analyzed using GC-MS/MS and LC-MS/MS for various munitions chemicals and for the 16 EPA indicator polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.993159
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.993159
Provenance
Creator Bünning, Lillian Tabea Hannah ORCID logo; Brenner, Matthias; De Rijke, Maarten; Lindemeyer, Jacqueline; Scheer, Lars Christian; Schuster, Romina Marietta; Schütte, Wyona; Strehse, Jennifer Susanne; Van Haelst, Sven; Wetzel, Patrick; Lintott, Bryan John; Maser, Edmund
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2026
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Data access is restricted (moratorium, sensitive data, license constraints); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess false
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 1763 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (18.803W, 69.647S, 20.805E, 69.647N); Sandnessundet
Temporal Coverage Begin 2025-05-31T14:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2025-06-01T15:43:00Z